1y ago

I am new refugee to lemmy

I want to familiarise my self with the rules and workings of this app/ website how moderation is done and etc so I can be extra careful

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Howdy.
Each instance has their own admin rukes and further each community has their own too.
You're on lemmy.world but you can still I subscribe and interact with communities created elsewhere
- Instances are similar to subreddits?
  
  I suggest you can watch this image, i think that will be easier for you to understand
  https://imgur.com/b2QuYAR?r
  
  Omg thank u for this comic thingy
  
  Also, communities in your "all" feed are ones that someone has already subscribed to from lemmy.world.
  
  U welcome :)
  
  I suggest we stop sharing this until someone updates it. The beehaw part hasn't been accurate in months.
  
  Oh yeah, you are right, but that's the most visualised version I could found at the moment
  
  No. Instance is like the full Reddit website, subreddits are communities here that are hosted in those instances. Check this comment, is very illustrative.
  
  No, each instance is like its own reddit website with its own subreddits (aka communities). But because of how federation works, instances are interconnected so you can also browse content from other instances on the instance you signed up with.
  
  Sometimes, but not always. Lemmy is forum software and each website that hosts it is an "instance" of the lemmy software. Some are general focus such as lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works. Others are more themed like lemdro.id and lemmy.studio
  Ones with a a focus are just more likely to have communities (subreddits) based around that theme but you can still subscribe to !musicproduction@lemmy.studio from your account for example.
- What power does those admins posses and I hope they don't shadow ban people for being a new account
  
  Shadowbanning doesn't exist here 😁 and karma has no effect. Most apps will not even display your total karma, by design
  
  Admins have a lot of power, they're running the software and often paying for upfront server costs. The good thing is they only have power over their slice of the broader lemmy.
  If you don't like how your admins run the instance you can just make an account on another. Account transferring isn't a thing yet but there are tools to transfer your subscriptions and blocks.

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